The Two Sides of the Rio Grande by mfagerlund

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made by mfagerlund for LD30 (COMPO)
The Two Sides of the Rio Grande is a Sim City like game that takes place on the border of Ju谩res and El Paso.

Ratings

Coolness 55% 3
Overall 3.14 628
Audio 1.50 981
Fun 2.75 811
Graphics 2.78 766
Humor 3.22 140
Innovation 3.15 559
Mood 2.88 642
Theme 3.61 291

Feedback

hypp
26. Aug 2014 路 10:51 UTC
Turned out pretty good!
馃帳 mfagerlund
26. Aug 2014 路 18:01 UTC
Thanks!
Windmill Games
26. Aug 2014 路 18:03 UTC
Not bad at all, good job!
Chaoseiro
26. Aug 2014 路 18:09 UTC
Nice interpretation, and a technically good game!
JangoBrick
26. Aug 2014 路 18:10 UTC
Nice job! Funny concept, well executed.
Peping
26. Aug 2014 路 18:35 UTC
Maybe it's because I'm not american, but I didn't seem to get the point of this game. The graphics are nice, the gameplay seems to be fluent, it nicely displays the dynamics of people going to work or to bars, but other than that... I don't even know if it's a game more than it is a simulation.
馃帳 mfagerlund
26. Aug 2014 路 21:21 UTC
That's a fair point - would you consider sim city, which is also open ended, a simulation or a game? Sim City is vastly more complex, but it doesn't have any goal other than for the user to try stuff.
PaperBlurt
27. Aug 2014 路 10:10 UTC
Filled with humor and ripe for parody.
Good going.
tbamberg
27. Aug 2014 路 19:59 UTC
Cool game, I'm surprised at how well polished everything is, considering the difficulty the engine had to give you.
gwa
27. Aug 2014 路 20:07 UTC
Nice Game liked to play it.
LabOne
27. Aug 2014 路 20:17 UTC
Well done.
borgi
27. Aug 2014 路 20:33 UTC
Nice gameplay, interresting idea!
ix
27. Aug 2014 路 20:40 UTC
I love the concept of this, but I don't feel like there is much to the gameplay. Is there anything we want to optimize? What does the simulation reveal about these two worlds? I hope you continue to develop this idea.
Lvyn
27. Aug 2014 路 20:45 UTC
Good game! I enjoyed playing it! :)
nilstastic
28. Aug 2014 路 20:49 UTC
Pros: Very nice simulation, like an antfarm but with mexicans. I also enjoyed the "I'm going to work" things.
Cons: The graphics could need some work =)
Nooner Bear
01. Sep 2014 路 00:27 UTC
Certainly an interesting take on the theme. Well done.
magmaCrab
01. Sep 2014 路 15:42 UTC
great work and idea! more of a simulator than a game, but still pretty fun to play with it. Something complete different, if you link to a website with also a download, you should call it "website" instead of "web".
whilefun
01. Sep 2014 路 16:48 UTC
Super cool entry! I played for a while, and got up to 605 Mexican residents. However, I think there was a bug or something because the American residents capped out at 46. It was really neat to play in fast forward and see everyone swarm to their destination. I would have liked to see some kind of constraint on building though, as I could just build as much as I wanted all the time, so there didn't seem to be a downside to doing things wrong or a benefit for doing them right. In any case, I had fun playing your game. Good work! :)
vividhelix
01. Sep 2014 路 17:06 UTC
Interesting take on the theme. A bit open-ended, would have liked to have some currency of sorts to limit building and influence new inhabitants showing up...
DarkCart
08. Sep 2014 路 22:31 UTC
Not really "Web", just another link to the Windows download.